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I found that the $5 Million pledge gave us voice acting in Squadron 42. I have searched far and wide for information on Star Citizen voice acting. My question therefore is:Will Star Citizen be fully voice acted, partially, or not at all?asked by JofeGamer

TL;DRRoberts says Squadron 42 will be fully voice acted with performance capture, and Star Citizen NPCs will also be voice acted, with generic characters getting less capture fidelity than specific ones.

Ok, so there's two things here, Squadron 42 obviously is going to be full, we're actually in the process of planning it right now.We're gonna do a full motion capture performance capture, so very similar to what's done in Avatar where you have the full actors running around in body suits with cameras on their heads and that will translate into the game.We have, I think, a pretty strong and compelling story for Squadron 42, I'm pretty excited by it. It's gonna be as big and rich as any Wing Commander I've done, possibly quite a bit beyond that. So Squadron 42 itself will be as big as if I were making another Wing Commander now for EA or someone, Squadron 42 would be that to the same level of polish and presentation.We have that, and then on top of that, roaming around Star Citizen, yes, the NPCs that you would meet and talk to would all be voice acted and we'll probably have some level of performance capture for them.It sort of depends, there will be the more generic people who won't have the same fidelity as the more specific NPCs that you may run across.But we'll have everything from more generic background characters, whether it's a bartender or something, to specific characters in the universe who we would actually do the same level of motion and facial capture on as we would do in Squadron 42.It's going to be pretty compelling and immersive hopefully, so we're gonna start shooting a lot of that in August or September of this year, both for the Persistent Universe, which is Star Citizen, and for Squadron 42. It will be a long process, but I think it will be pretty awesome once you get to wander around in all of it.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 18. April 28th, 2014·
Published on this date.28 Apr 2014
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